Tai-o-mah, A Musquakee Brave, hand-colored lithograph

A hand-colored lithograph portrait of a man in profile-turned-frontal view, wearing a tall roached hairstyle with a dark feather and a white draped blanket. He displays a necklace of large pale claws or beads with red accents and a round pendant on his chest, and a metal armband. The printed caption beneath reads the sitter's name and tribe.

Artist

Alfred M. Hoffy

Date

1838

Medium

Hand-colored lithograph on paper

Source

Smithsonian (National Portrait Gallery)

Size

2757 × 4000 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, National Portrait Gallery